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[1] School segregation declined rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s. [2] Segregation appears to have increased since 1990. [2] The disparity in the average poverty rate in the schools whites attend and blacks attend is the single most important factor in the educational achievement gap between white and black students. [3]
The school districts in the San Antonio area, and generally in Texas, had a long history of financial inequity. Rodriguez presented evidence that school districts in the wealthy, primarily white, areas of town, most notably the north-side Alamo Heights Independent School District, were able to contribute a much higher amount per child than ...
Later that year, Texas passed more segregation laws that delayed integration even further. Facing the lack of federal funds, the Mansfield Independent School District quietly desegregated in 1965. [1] The decade long defiance of a federal school integration order was one of the longest in the nation during that period. [3]
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In fact, the city was a leader of school desegregation in the South, even housing a few small schools that were minimally integrated before the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. Despite this initial breakthrough, however, full desegregation of the schools was a far cry from reality in Nashville in the mid-1950s, and thus 22 ...
City of Bastrop (Mina Ward Elementary highlighted in red.) (Map from the United States Census Bureau) The specifics of the case began when grandmother Namensia Garcia attempted to enroll her granddaughter Minerva Delgado in the public all White school in the town of Bastrop, but the superintendent refused and Minerva was denied admittance. [ 4 ]
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Preuss, Gene B. "Public education comes of age." in Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History, edited by John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley, (2008) pp: 358–386. online; Preuss, Gene B. To Get a Better School System : One Hundred Years of Education Reform in Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2009) online; Sand, Thad, and Milam C ...